algebraism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The use of abstract logic and symbol manipulation as opposed to empirical observation.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It is on the basis of the synthesis of algebraism and scientific experiment that one may correctly designate the rationalistic revival implied in the doctrines of Einstein."
- "In fact, Jakobson is partly responsible for many misunderstandings about so-called abstractions and algebraisms in Hjelmslev 's linguistic research."
- "Empiricism in natural philosophy was matched by an advanced algebraism in mathematical thinking . The Russellian reformation, which actually amounted to a convergence of trends and experiments that had been going on throughout the nineteenth century , resulted in what might be characterized as a renewed , “ metaphysical ” — perhaps even a mystical— grounding for the philosophy of number."
- "Writing is an illness we cannot treat but only recover from. Our interests in dialog, poetry, and orality are vectors of a single urge to recover a sounding sense deadened by algebraisms without the sense of sound or the sound of sense."
- "Our dissatisfaction with algebraism arises from what we believe to be a reasonable skepticism concerning the arbitrary production of fictions for the sake of systematic neatness. We favor hunter-tatherer ontology, based on empirical evidence, rather than armchair ontology based on permutations and combinations."